Last weekend while at my in-laws' house, I noticed that my mother in-law's very ripe cherry trees had not been picked. Lucky me, she told me to have at it!
Rick's younger brother, Scott, was there and he helped us pick. The cherries were so ripe that some were almost sweet. As we all picked, Scott, Rick and I all remembered being kids, waiting for the cherry trees to ripen (we had cherries at the house I grew up in too), thinking that this year, …
I was so inspired by this post I decided to harvest my own cherries!
Read on below for the details . . . (following is the post from the Lazy Homesteader)
[...] I picked cherries! Fifteen pounds, cleaned, pitted & bagged to be exact! I was very inspired by the Lazy Homesteader’s last post about drying cherries. Tuesday I helped mom can her Shelley’s Jelly Cherry Jam. She had enough cherries to make 6 [...]